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Use of Online Privacy and Anonymity Tools on the Rise

Globally, 56% of those surveyed by GlobalWebIndex reported that they
felt the internet is eroding their personal privacy, with an estimated
415 million people or 28% of the online population using tools to
disguise their identity or location.

On these figures, Tor could be regularly used by as many as 45.13
million people. Its biggest userbase appears to be in Indonesia, where
21% of respondents said they used the tool, followed by 18% in Vietnam
and 15% in India.

Indonesia also has the world's highest penetration of general
anonymity tools among its internet users, with 42% using proxy servers
or virtual private networks known as VPNs, which disguise the location
of the user's internet connection - their IP address - and therefore
bypass regional blocks on certain content.

The US, UK, Germany and Ireland meanwhile all report 17% penetration,
with Japan the lowest at 5%. The data includes those aged 16-64 for the
last quarter of 2013.